... opportunities, and business cunning, than to honesty. Honesty is the best policy Do you think that “Honesty is the best policy”? This is an old and often repeated proverb, but it is true? ... if we consider that truth and righteousness are far more important than wealth and rank and prosperity – then, in the highest sense, honesty is the best policy in the end. ... dishonesty. Too many successful rogues have proved by experience that for them dishonesty had been the best policy. Of course some of these people come to a bad end, and lose all they have gained by...